Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver updates

From: Manfred Spraul <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 09:11:46 +0200

Andi Kleen wrote:

>My NF4Pro machine now reliably does
>
>Disconnecting: Bad packet length 3742984839.
>
>when I display a lot of data through ssh.  Apparently it generates some 
>corruption that's not caught by the TCP checksum.
>
The nic does hw checksumming - thus the tcp checksum won't catch driver 
bugs.

> Would that be fixed by this
>change too? 
>
>  
>
No idea, but unlikely. The fix removes a duplicate request_irq call. Is 
it possible that the both instances run concurrently?

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    Manfred